Chalk this one up to wishful thinking. The Web this morning is awash with rumors about the Google Nexus Two, this morning, the follow up to the not-especially well-received HTC/Google team up, the Nexus One.
Now perhaps it's precisely because of that device's lukewarm reception that these latest rumors actually have Samsung producing the Nexus Two--A Galaxy S-like device. Given the evidence available at present, it's hard to put too much stock in the rumor.
As if that weren't enough to process this morning, here's another weird level to the story: a site called ITProPortal is putting forth the suggestion that the Nexus Two is actually the rumored PlayStation Phone. It's a two-for-one in the rumor mill this morning.
The suggestion (and, really, it can't be called anything else--well, okay, "wishful thinking" works, too) is that Sony Ericsson, having been given--and subsequently turned down--the opportunity to produce the Nexus One, is now working on the follow up (because the first one did so well?). And that follow up is the PlayStation Phone.
What we know is this: those early leaks of the purported PlayStation Phone have the handset running some form of Android (Gingerbread, apparently). And, yes, it fair to say that Google is losing the casual gaming fight to Apple's iPhone.
Oh, and Google did partner with Sony for one of the first Google TV units, "so don't be flabbergasted if the Japanese giant goes ahead and extends its partnership with Google to the Playstation brand as well," writes the rumor site.
It's a nice thought, sure, but it's not really based on any in particular--just some seemingly unconnected bits and pieces from around the Web.
(source:gearlog.com)
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